Who am I?

Esteemed voters, my name is Muhammed and I’m a first-year Computer Science student who’s running for Crisis Officer. I feel that past Crisis Officers of KCLUNA have done a great job in their role, and I intend (if elected) to continue in a similar fashion to them, while also helping to increase awareness around Crisis and how to approach it.

I only started MUN in September of last year, but I was instantly fascinated with debate of incredibly important issues such as Barbie vs Oppenheimer. As fun as GA is, I began to find it somewhat restrictive with it having a set topic and often few potential solutions that could be used to address the problem at hand.

I discovered Crisis through a KCLUNA training session and immediately fell in love, choosing to attend the Crisis committee at my next conference. I love Crisis due to the only limit being your imagination (or rather, what the backroomers deem within your power). Crisis allowed me to engage better with a character, come up with more creative solutions, and use personal pronouns excessively.

Why am I running?

Through KCLUNA, and MUN more generally, I’ve made tons of new friends and had many great experiences. What I’m most proud of, is my improvement in public speaking, which was one of my main aims from joining the society. I feel that it’s now my responsibility to help the society because of what it’s done for me.

I’m running solely for the position of Crisis Officer as it is by far what I am most passionate about. I enjoy the worldbuilding from organising Crisis sessions, and of course the front row seat to action that comes from being involved with the running of a Crisis.

What would I do differently?

Education Around Crisis

I remember when I came into my first Crisis training with no prior knowledge of what Crisis was. As fun as it was, I relied on more-experienced delegates to help me understand the way in which a Crisis operated. I don’t think I fully understood the rules of procedure surrounding directives and cabinets until I attended my first Crisis committee at a conference.

My intention would be to hold a session towards the beginning of the year (preferably before ULMUN) to cover Crisis committees in detail. It would outline what a Crisis is, the different types of Crisis committees, the specific rules of procedure differences, how to best play a character, etc. After this, I would continue with Crisis training sessions as they have been run this year.

More Sessions

As of the manifesto deadline, there have only been two Crisis training sessions this academic year. Both have been fun and well-run, but I believe that we should host more since Crisis is very different to standard GA committees and so needs more practice to adapt to. I would also try to have the sessions better placed right before big conferences in which we may have many King’s students take part on Crisis committees (e.g. LSEMUN and ScotMUN).